Award Date

12-2012

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Committee Member

Biswajit Das, Chair

Second Committee Member

Mei Yang

Third Committee Member

Yingtao Jiang

Graduate Faculty Representative

Hui Zhao

Number of Pages

108

Abstract

As optical counterpart of microwave antennas, plasmonic nanoantennas are important nanoscale devices for converting propagating optical radiation into confined/enhanced electromagnetic fields. Presently, nanoantennas, with a typical size of 200-500 nm, have found their applications in bio-sensing, bio-imaging, energy harvesting, and disease cure and prevention. With the device feature size of next generation IC goes down to 22 nm or smaller, and biological/chemical sensing reaches the Gene’s level, the sizes of the corresponding nanoantennas have to be scaled down to sub-100nm level. In the literature, these sub-100nm nanoantennas are referred as deep subwavelength nanoantennas as size of such miniaturized nanoantennas is only a fraction of the wavelength of applied visible light range (390nm-750nm).

Keywords

Applied sciences; Localized surface plasmons; Optical antennas; Plasmon polarization; Plasmonic nanoantennas; Plasmons (Physics); Sensing; Surface plasmon resonance

Disciplines

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Nanotechnology Fabrication | Plasma and Beam Physics

File Format

pdf

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Comments

Attached file: Programming Code

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Programing Code

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